Constructive Quote by John Dewey

“Control or be controlled is a mantra that offers a solution to external techniques aimed at modifying behaviour.”

— Steven Redhead

“Autonomous and voluntary behaviour.” These words, hewn from the discussion about avoiding conflicting interests, strike fear in the hearts of technologists. “Control and determinism”…

— Mark Burgess

“You can’t control someone else’s behavior toward you, but you can control your own reaction and how your meaning-making machine construes that behavior.”

— Vishen Lakhiani

“Conflict between an automatic reaction and an intention to control it is common in our lives.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Control of each moment should be governed by specific intentions.”

— Steven Redhead

“Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to…

— Veronica Roth

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

— W. Edwards Deming

“The desire to control everything is giving way to pluralism, uniformity to diversity, centralization to localism, opacity to transparency, and immobilisme, or the resistance…

— John Micklethwait

“People cannot be controlled. Only our reactions can.”

— Mary Mihalic

“I think, very plausibly, that the core principle and requirement of a fulfilled human being is the ability to inquire and create constructively, independently,…

— Noam Chomsky

For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

— Jason Mraz

“The world is what it is, it’s our job to simply present ourselves as boldly and clearly to it as possible, accept the reactions…

— Mark Manson